The team's search for a head coach also has the quarterback’s attention, and Rivers has a few ideas about what he’d like the new hire to provide.

“We need a guy that’s gonna have command of the room, respect, all of those things – can manage a staff, manage the players and manage the game,” said Rivers, who’s under contract through 2019. “A guy that has a great feel for the whole environment: when the practice is sluggish, when you throw us a bone and say ‘no meetings,’ when you need the Marty Schottenheimer-type speech on a Wednesday, and when we need a, ‘Hey, cut the projector off, we’re gonna wear this team out on Sunday because we’re better than them.’ ”

Rivers watched the wild-card games last week, and will take in the divisional games this week.

A year after predicting Denver’s upset of Carolina in Super Bowl 50, the veteran quarterback sees Dallas, Atlanta, Kansas City and New England advancing to the conference championship games, making it two weeks in a row that home teams won every game.